You can’t stream it on Apple+ or Vudu/Fandango either. I despise that duplicitous complicity in the face of their social justice media advocacy in the US the last few years. Gotta protect the bottom line…
A colleague in CA loaned me his Kundun copy in 2016. He was completing a phd in NM when the movie premiered, and Tibetan monks from Iron Knot Ranch and the local area held a ceremony (I believe on campus) to watch the film. He’s socially liberal, fiscally conservative, his wife is from Taiwan, and he wanted me to know of the repression ccp china enforced on Tibet because I was teaching ESL to Chinese exchange students and visiting Chinese universities.
I knew of tianenmen square and the current great internet firewall, but hadn’t learned of Tibet and Taiwan to the extent this movie depicted and he knew. Buy the eve and blue-ray on Amazon while you still can, watch it, and promote the film to spite the CCP and the whole of media ban on it.
Go see a Shen Yun production for that matter, or subscribe to The Epoch Times, a right leaning news site that advocates for the spiritual Falun Gong movement the CCP continues to persecute today since they started in the late 90s for its ideological threat to their rule. CCP lobbies against Shen Yun and harasses venues because it depicts traditional Chinese culture before CCP cancel culture takeover in 1940s and 50s.
Should be clear that communism kills culture of its host in order to survive (The Killing Fields movie about communist takeover of Cambodia).
Here's what I got: The CCP didn't want the film to be released because they're scared to death of what would eventually become of them if more people knew the truth of their atrocities, plain and simple. I've often said this: Few (if any) will censor a lie because lies can easily be debunked in plain sight. No, the truth is what governments, especially one as atrocious as the CCP, will go out of their way to censor. And it's all because they're scared. That's all there is to it.
This is an important post and a reminder of the enormous damage Michael Eisner imposed on Disney and its customers, including his terrible first production, "Return to Oz," which is more of a horror movie than a children's classic.
I don't see it as Eisener's fault. I see it as Capitalism run Amuck. Just like whats happening now with Elon Musk.
Here's an excerpt a friend sent me concerning the recent Budget fights in Congress.
In the end, Congress passed a bill much like the one Musk scuttled, but one of the provisions that Congress stripped out of the old bill was extraordinarily important to Musk. As David Dayen explained in The Prospect, the original agreement had an “outbound investment” provision that restricted the ability of Americans to invest in technology factories in China. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bob Casey (D-PA) had collaborated on the measure, hoping to keep cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, as well as the jobs they would create, in America rather than let companies move them to China.
As Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) explained, Musk is building big factories in China and wants to build an AI data center there, even though it could endanger U.S. security. McGovern charged that Musk’s complaints about the spending in the bill were cover for his determination to tank the provision that would limit his ability to move technology and business to China. And, he noted, it worked. The outbound investment provision was stripped out of the bill before it passed. HCR
My takeaway from this piece is that private corporate officers shouldn’t be effectively dictating foreign policy (on my behalf without my leave), although certainly Imperial Vichy District of Columbia makes similar such equally disastrous policies with every breath on grander scales.
In this instance for Americans, Michael Eisner made it unnecessarily less facile to not care whatsoever what the CCP thinks says or does. Not very patriotic of him, what a lily-livered a-hole.
You can’t stream it on Apple+ or Vudu/Fandango either. I despise that duplicitous complicity in the face of their social justice media advocacy in the US the last few years. Gotta protect the bottom line…
A colleague in CA loaned me his Kundun copy in 2016. He was completing a phd in NM when the movie premiered, and Tibetan monks from Iron Knot Ranch and the local area held a ceremony (I believe on campus) to watch the film. He’s socially liberal, fiscally conservative, his wife is from Taiwan, and he wanted me to know of the repression ccp china enforced on Tibet because I was teaching ESL to Chinese exchange students and visiting Chinese universities.
I knew of tianenmen square and the current great internet firewall, but hadn’t learned of Tibet and Taiwan to the extent this movie depicted and he knew. Buy the eve and blue-ray on Amazon while you still can, watch it, and promote the film to spite the CCP and the whole of media ban on it.
Go see a Shen Yun production for that matter, or subscribe to The Epoch Times, a right leaning news site that advocates for the spiritual Falun Gong movement the CCP continues to persecute today since they started in the late 90s for its ideological threat to their rule. CCP lobbies against Shen Yun and harasses venues because it depicts traditional Chinese culture before CCP cancel culture takeover in 1940s and 50s.
Should be clear that communism kills culture of its host in order to survive (The Killing Fields movie about communist takeover of Cambodia).
Here's what I got: The CCP didn't want the film to be released because they're scared to death of what would eventually become of them if more people knew the truth of their atrocities, plain and simple. I've often said this: Few (if any) will censor a lie because lies can easily be debunked in plain sight. No, the truth is what governments, especially one as atrocious as the CCP, will go out of their way to censor. And it's all because they're scared. That's all there is to it.
I’ve seen it
Have Kundun somewhere in the house and watched several times. It was powerful.
Does it stand up historically? Don't know.
The question is what to do about another country exerting influence on our media?
Yeah, it's not right, but what to do?
This is an important post and a reminder of the enormous damage Michael Eisner imposed on Disney and its customers, including his terrible first production, "Return to Oz," which is more of a horror movie than a children's classic.
I kind of like Return to Oz, but I did NOT like it when I was 8.
I don't see it as Eisener's fault. I see it as Capitalism run Amuck. Just like whats happening now with Elon Musk.
Here's an excerpt a friend sent me concerning the recent Budget fights in Congress.
In the end, Congress passed a bill much like the one Musk scuttled, but one of the provisions that Congress stripped out of the old bill was extraordinarily important to Musk. As David Dayen explained in The Prospect, the original agreement had an “outbound investment” provision that restricted the ability of Americans to invest in technology factories in China. Senators John Cornyn (R-TX) and Bob Casey (D-PA) had collaborated on the measure, hoping to keep cutting-edge technologies including artificial intelligence and quantum computing, as well as the jobs they would create, in America rather than let companies move them to China.
As Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA) explained, Musk is building big factories in China and wants to build an AI data center there, even though it could endanger U.S. security. McGovern charged that Musk’s complaints about the spending in the bill were cover for his determination to tank the provision that would limit his ability to move technology and business to China. And, he noted, it worked. The outbound investment provision was stripped out of the bill before it passed. HCR
My takeaway from this piece is that private corporate officers shouldn’t be effectively dictating foreign policy (on my behalf without my leave), although certainly Imperial Vichy District of Columbia makes similar such equally disastrous policies with every breath on grander scales.
In this instance for Americans, Michael Eisner made it unnecessarily less facile to not care whatsoever what the CCP thinks says or does. Not very patriotic of him, what a lily-livered a-hole.
As someone who likes to think of himself as somewhat libertarian, I'd love to hear someone explain the free market method of dealing with this.
I don't want businesses in this country subject to the dictates of a foreign government, but getting our Holy Mother State involved is no answer.